Ben Bettin wrote:
I think I've always found Xchat to be the best GUI, especially in terms of it's similarity to mIRC. I'd be curious to see what everyone's favorite CLI client is. I've heard a few mentions of irssi in the past, but I've never tried it.
My favorite IRC client, by far, is irssi. I am usually connected to two or three servers and a half dozen channels, and having each channel in its own window is extremely nice. Of course it is very configurable, and that behavior can be changed; the client can be made to look and act like ircii fairly easily. I customized it so long ago, however, that I don't remember most of the options you can set. The web site tends to be pretty helpful though.
I run it under screen on a remote server, and it is a very stable program -- /uptime returns 'Irssi uptime: 337d 20h 33m 36s' and VM usage is under 10 megs.
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